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Why do we need offices ? office-less is the new paper-less! with tools like google hangout and google glasses, it makes less and less sense everyday. Why come t
by 31reasons 13y ago
Why do we need offices ? office-less is the new paper-less! with tools like google hangout and google glasses, it makes less and less sense everyday. Why come to the same physical space everyday and stare at the computer screens to do the work you can do from anywhere.
Offices were invented to reduce the transaction cost of communication between employees, which was true 20 years ago but not anymore. I guess we have to wait till the net generation moves in to management to be truly comfortable with the mobile workforce.
The time of long tail of work environment is upon us.
- mindcrime 13y agoThat's a good point. And to carry on from what I said above[1] about what I hope we can do at Fogbeam eventually, let me add: Letting people work from home (or wherever) with quite a bit of freedom. I do think there is some value in having people physically located near each other and coming into the office at least part-time, but I totally agree with giving employees a lot of autonomy in deciding where to work. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768791
- notatoad 13y agoI like my office. It's a place I go to do work. I love my job, but I also love to get away from my job, completely, when I step out the door of my office. I've tried the work-from-anywhere thing and it sucks. It really just turns into work-all-the-time for me.
- 31reasons 13y agoIts okay to like office and work there just don't force or enforce your co-workers and employees to do the same by assuming that they love their offices as much as you do. For example, May be you are that loud or annoying co-worker or extrovert who keep interrupting them from their work.